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Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-03

Description: Elevated view looking north towards Queen's Wharf and down over houses and buildings near and on the Auckland waterfront. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s-1880s from the Northern Club, Princes Street. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Princess Wharf, Auck. Donated by Mrs Scott 1977 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.3 x 35.4 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs Scott, 1977

Date: [1903-1920]

By: Grant, F J, active 1980s; Inkster, Lawrence Andrew, 1897-1955; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Morris, Guy Clayton, 1868-1918

Reference: PAColl-0362

Description: Photographs taken during the royal tour of New Zealand made by the Prince of Wales in 1920. Many of the images are of military inspections and displays by school children. There are also displays of Maori dancing and singing, the sailors of the HMS Renown, on which the prince had travelled , prior to their soccer match in Dunedin, the prince addressing the crowds etc. A number of the images are in two-part panoramas. Also included are four scenic photographs by the New Zealand Tourist Department which may have been taken in 1903. The photographer for the tour photographs was Guy. Other - Similar images at 1/2-032642, 045102 Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 60 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1925-1935]

By: Lovell-Smith, Hubert John, 1881-1948

Reference: PAColl-0451

Description: Photographs of Hastings and the surrounding area taken by H J Lovell-Smith. They include photographs of earthquake damage to shops in Hastings; the flooding of the Ngaruroro River; excavation of the site of the new swimming pool in Havelock North; a man and a boy sheltering from the rain outside a barbers shop; the Soldiers Memorial Hospital; Taradale Post and Telegraph Office with the library across the street; two men working on a steam locomotive; neon sign on Queen's Wharf, Auckland; wedding photograph of a couple named Harper and Ward (the groom was a minister); five men next to a crashed aeroplane on a snowy hillside; a Windsor chair made from New Zealand birch; schoolgirls leaving Hastings High School; a view across Hastings, possibly from the Clock Tower, over Railway Road and towards St Andrew's Church; two of the Cosy Buildings (possibly previously the Douglas Buildings), one when the picture theatre had the electric sign "Cosy" hanging from it and was showing the film Nurse Marjorie and the other without the sign and with the ground floor closed up; and the new Post and Telegraph Office built to replace the old one after the earthquake. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1910-circa 1940s]

By: Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976; Lackland, Edward Clark, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-9936

Description: Photographs taken and collected by Les Rykers in the course of his career as a commercial artist with the Brett Printing and Publishing Company. Photographers unidentified unless listed. Collection comprises: Auckland views: Town Hall circa 1920; Auckland Star offices decorated for coronation of George VI in 1937; aerial view of Auckland circa 1930s-1940s with Jervois Road/Ponsonby area and harbour; inner city view circa 1930s-1940s showing houses in foreground and spire of St Matthews behind; Mechanics Bay, Auckland, circa 1940s with flying boats of TEAL and Pan American World Airways. Shipping photographs: sailing ship in choppy seas taken 1938 by Edward Clark Lackland; passenger ferry and smaller craft at Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island, Auckland, circa 1930; M-class sailing dinghies/yachts at sea, possibly in Auckland, circa 1930s-1940s; montage of windjammer sailing ships at Whanganui dated 16 August 1911; montage dated 23 February 1910 of ship and deck scenes, and Queens Wharf, Auckland, relating to the steam ship 'Malwa'. Two copies of a portrait of Les Rykers. One copy is marked up for publication as a half-tone illustration. Miscellaneous photographs; bird with black cap on head, possibly a Caspian tern, flying and feeding its young, circa 1930s-1940s; horse-drawn wagons on a beach taken circa 1910s-1920s by E C Lackland; a stationary engine circa 1930s-1940s, Maori women in semi-traditional costume by waters edge circa 1930s-1940s; unidentified stream with native bush alongside, circa 1930s-1940s Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) attached to form a wide view. 1 card mount with 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 card mount with 4 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donor is son of Leslie Rykers. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald, 1897-1976 [1. Ca 50 original art works for advertisements, greeting cards, and illustrations for Auckland Star and Brett's Christmas annuals; 2. Neil Lonsdale "So long it's been good to know you" 1956; 3. J P Sydney "Native bush" etching; 4. Neville L and Trevor Rykers. Illustration sketches. ca 1940]. See also Ephemera collection: [Rykers, Leslie Bertram Archibald?], 1897-1976: Ephemera; including Teaspoon, the new fragrant tea; Choysa, the tea supreme; O.C. choice rabbit, Zealandia canned fish labels. 1930s?] See also Published collections: two books and two serials. See also Manuscripts collection: MS-Papers-10837: Rykers family: Papers..

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-50

Description: Elevated view looking north towards Queen's Wharf and down over houses and buildings near and on the Auckland waterfront. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s-1880s from the Northern Club, Princes Street. No 40. The Wharf, etc Auckland, NZ from the Club [FA1-f-174] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 23.2 x 35 cm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Various artists :Official Bay; From a point; Freeman's Bay, Auckland. [ca 1845. Five keys to early buildings and features from drawings by Edward Ashworth and other artists].

Reference: A-197-049

Description: A view of Freemans Bay. From left to right, labelled features include: Rangitoto, Mt Victoria, North Head, Queen Street Wharf, Motuihi, Smales Point, Waiheke, St Heliers, Hardinge Street, St Patricks, Drake Street (now Victoria Street). Likely to have been made as a key to a painting. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, on sheet 190 x 332 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-004-002

Description: Shows a view from a low vantage point on the beach around, or slightly to the west of, the present Queen's Wharf (perhaps from around Freeman's Bay). View looks towards Rangitoto Island with cliffs of the North Shore, and Mount Victoria and North Head visible behind the masts of several sailings ships and a steamship anchored at the wharf area at right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - CDB Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 183 x 342 mm.

Date: [Circa 1890s]

Reference: PA1-o-286

Description: Scenes of New Zealand, taken by unidentified photographers, chiefly of the South Island. The North island views include Whakarewarewa, especially Pohutu Geyser, Parliament Buildings in Wellington, Ohinemutu, Albert Park & Queen's Wharf in Auckland, and a stretch of the Okoroire-Rotorua Coach Road. South Island views include Lyttelton, Kaikoura, Cathedral Square in Christchurch, and a stretch of the Blenheim-Kaikoura Coach Road. Photographs of Sydney and the Conway River have been removed from the album. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Soft brown school notebook (E. Wolff & Son, London, [printers]), with hand-printed label attached, entitled `Views. Lyttelton, Christchurch, Conway R., Kaikoura, Sydney, Auckland & Picton Wharves'; 21.5 x 25.5 cm

Date: 1880s

By: Wilson family

Reference: PA1-o-767

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donor is direct descendant of Wilson family

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-010/011

Description: Shows Fort Britomart on headland in right background. In right foreground is a jetty with several men and one woman with a parasol, standing on it. In front of the jetty is a small sailboat. There are two other small boats between the jetty and the fort, and two more in the left background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (On left panel): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1859

From: Koch, Augustus Carl Ferdinand, 1834-1901: Photograph album of Bruno Hamel images of Government Scientific Exploring Expedition conducted by Dr Ferdinand Hochstetter

Reference: PA1-o-207-01

Description: Auckland, looking west across Queen Street and Queen Street Wharf from Point Britomart towards Smales Point, photographed in 1859 by Bruno Hamel. Note the Maori group in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Wharf Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 9.6 x 14.3 cm (sight) mounted on album page

Date: [ca 8 December 1906]

By: Cutler, Alfred, 1840?-1912

Reference: PA6-306

Description: Panoramic photograph of Queens Wharf, Auckland, taken ca 8 December 1906 by Alfred Cutler Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted on card, damage to right hand side (ripped and torn)

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-014/015

Description: Shows activity on the wharf: fixing of rigging, two soldiers talking to each other, a horse and cart, a woman with a parasol, and several other figures idling. Across the harbour are dwellings, and higher up St Paul's church, with the barracks on the top of the hill. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: [Between 1890 and 1900]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/4-034430-G

Description: looking north across Auckland Harbour from the vicinity of Admiralty House across Queens Wharf (left of centre) towards Birkenhead and Northcote, showing crowds, probably gathered on the occasion of the Auckland Anniversary Regatta, photographed in the 1890s by Daniel Manders Beere. Dated from other photographs in sequence, and from the presence of electric power lines. Identified from typescript of photographer's negative register held at TL 6/1/62. Left of three-part panorama with 1/4-034432-G and 1/4-034433-G. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - top left - 148 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches